Dana (Bleak Midwinter’s Version)

the joy of watching something and going “how did they DO that?”, the magic of sport and entertainment, something i thought was universal but no, legions of people just want computer to feed them something computer deemed statistically pleasing

The wrong people have jobs

ahhh congrats she's a cutie!!

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It’s a tough day! Here’s an active post in r/poetry where everyone’s sharing their favorite cat poems:
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Every couple of months I'll see some story like this and think "oh, the problem is that nobody actually cares about anything that's wrong. ok that's what I was missing" (it's not all the time but it is SOME times!!)

There’s one hell of a kicker at the end of Kristen Lopez’s latest post. You gotta respect the art of the final paragraph.

This is such a touching article by Dan McQuade about how cats touch and enrich our lives. 🎁 link

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I wonder how Anthony Hopkins, Sean Astin and Jake Gyllenhaal feel about being in this movie

ahahahah of course!! it can't even accurately scrape google!!! amazing amazing stuff we've got here, at least it looks really ugly too

these are so cool, too

so much already out there! and it's so much more interesting and compelling than "dead-eyed AI artifact object"

(I assume this is a reasonable ask of an LLM, I don't personally know and have been surprised in the past at obvious things they can't do)

just ask chatgpt to link you to some Creative Commons owl pictures at the very least?? like these images are already out there, it improves nothing to have a "custom" picture that doesn't make sense or have any particular relevance to the purpose

He’s a little younger than me but I have genetics and statistics on my side, I think we can do it. Maybe some kind of accountability “were you alive today y/n” accountability gc

until recently, i was a dumbass. but no longer.

is nobody deeply embarrassed to admit they "consult chatbots before every decision"

r/catbongos 42.5k visitors per week 8 _guy • 20h If you still support Trump/ICE even slightly, you're not welcome in this sub The nice thing about owning a subreddit is I can use it as my personal soapbox, so after the blatant murder by ICE today in Minnesota, I wanted to say something. We are r... Upvotes 33.2k Comments 2,388 Awards 77

Saw this yesterday from the very first subreddit I ever joined, eons ago

While this is sometimes a bummer, I got really excited when I realized this was where Sons of Anarchy was going

Cinema Paradiso (1988) 🫂

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

I am so sorry 💔

YouTube video by panikpaula Indigo Girls - Ghost.wmv

"and the Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota"
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This 80s nostalgia is going a little bit too hard for my tastes

Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett on NYE, surrounded by people and giant colorful confetti, in Strange Days

Happy New Year to them 🎊

I AM RUNNING INTO A NEW YEAR Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what i said to myself about myself when i was sixteen and twentysix and thirtysix even thirtysix but i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me

For a New Year’s Eve, a reading:

If you’ve ever thought “bluesky would be perfect if only it had Sun of Seldo, the account that tracks the gradual increase in daylight minutes until spring” boy have I got good news for you 🌻

“It fucken wimdy” fox wearing poorly photoshopped lakers jersey. A clip art palm tree blows in the background.

Los Angeles rn

Thanks for Christmas IX Playlist - Thanks for Christmas IX - 12 items

To skip the thoughts and go straight to the holiday music (recommended?):
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open.spotify.com/user/dswhite7

Thanks for Christmas Mostly annual, mostly yuletide playlists—from me to you Christmas Time in the South of France, John Duncan Fergusson [Tidal] [YouTube] [Spotify] You don’t really know they’re the good times while y…

Yet another occasionally annual Christmas mix is here for 2025, along with some thoughts: ds-white.com/christmas/

Donna Reed, crossing her arms and pursing her lips into a wry smile, looks down into the Bedford River